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Background: Diarrheal diseases have a major effect on human health, Globally; it is
second only to pneumonia as a leading cause of death among children under five.
They are due to a variety of infectious and non-infectious ...

Introduction: Intestinal infections caused by soil transmitted helminth and diarhoegenic
Escherichia coli (E. coli) are a major threat to the health and socio-economic wellbeing of
children in developing countries. ...

Globally, one in ten child deaths before the age of 5 years is due to diarrheal disease,
causing almost 800,000 mortalities worldwide, which mostly occur in Sub-Saharan
Africa and South Asia. Eighty-eight percent (88%) ...

BACKGROUND: Medicinal plants form an important part of the Southern African cultural
heritage. Indigenous populations, for example the Vha-Venda people, tend to use medicinal
plants in formulations rather than western ...

Background: Diarrheal diseases constitute an important problem among children but also
among HIV positive patients particularly in developing countries such as South Africa.
Cryptosporidium infect humans and has been ...